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Stone hut circle 500m ENE of Merrivale Bridge is a Bronze Age domestic structure forming part of a dispersed settlement cluster on Dartmoor in Devon. The monument consists of a roughly circular foundation of stacked stone, typical of the domestic architecture practised during the second millennium BC across the moorland of southwestern England. The hut circle occupies an area of upland terrain where multiple such structures, some with associated field boundaries and cairns, indicate a landscape intensively organised for pastoral settlement and agriculture during prehistoric times. The survival of these stone foundations, whilst robbed of their original superstructure, provides evidence of domestic scale and construction technique characteristic of Bronze Age moorland communities.
Stone hut circle 500m ENE of Merrivale Bridge, forming part of a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014669. View the official record →
Stone hut circle 500m ENE of Merrivale Bridge is a Bronze Age domestic structure forming part of a dispersed settlement cluster on Dartmoor in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1014669.
Stone hut circle 500m ENE of Merrivale Bridge, forming part of a partially enclosed stone hut circle settlement is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1014669.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hut circle on Wigford Down (10 km), Vermin trap 620m south east of Legis Tor forming part of Trowlesworthy Warren (10.2 km), Two stone hut circles and an enclosure 680m ENE of Trowlesworthy Warren House (10.2 km).
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